Geisha
The history of the Geisha variety can be traced back to a British botany expedition in 1931 to the Southern Ethiopian highlands near the mountain of Gesha. Various coffee berries were collected during this expedition, some of which were subsequently exported in 1932 to the Kenya's Kitale research center with label of "Geisha seeds." It is because of this labeling error that the variety's name does not match its region of origin. In 1936, sprouts were further spread to experimental plots in Uganda and Tanzania before being brought to Costa Rica's Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE) in 1953, where it was then documented as "accession T2722." Not recognizing the variety's need for high altitudes, initial attempts to introduce accession T2722 were unsuccessful due to the variety's brittle stems. Despite this, accession T2722 was cultivated modestly throughout Costa Rica and into Panama during the 20th century. Thought to have since been lost, this rare cultivar was rediscovered in 2003 by Daniel Peterson of the Esmerelda Estate among the high elevations of Panama's Boquete region.
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